Rabang v. Immigration And Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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• holding that individuals born in the Philippines when it was a U.S. territory were not entitled to citizenship by birth because they were not born “in the United States” as contemplated by the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment (alteration in original)
• Of course, here, Petitioner entered the United States legally, so Sotelo does not dispose of this case.
• Of course, here, Petitioner entered the United States legally, so So-telo does not dispose of this case.
• Fourteenth Amendment has an “express territorial limitation which prevents its extension to every place over which the government exercises its sovereignty.”
• “In the Insular Cases the Supreme Court decided that the territorial scope of the phrase ‘the United States’ as used in the Constitution is limited to the states of the Union.” (footnote omitted)
• “A complaint should not be dismissed unless it appears beyond doubt that plaintiff 13 can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).